AP - On Tuesday morning, just before the 2010 Academy Award nominations were announced, screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher couldn't get his TV to work. He scrambled to his computer and searched for the online broadcast of the nominations, his ears perking up for his name to be called.

AP - Brittany Murphy, the star of "Clueless" and "8 Mile," died from pneumonia, with prescription drugs and anemia also playing a role, a coroner's official said Thursday.

AP - Years of moviegoing have familiarized us with tales of city folk waylaid in country towns — quirky Southern backwaters and dusty desert holes. It turns out that the convention works especially well in, of all places, rural Denmark.

AP - The movie is called "Dear John," and, yes, there's a character named John and, yes, he's a soldier who, sure enough, receives dozens of letters from his sweetheart back home, including one emotionally wrought missive that begins "Dear John" and ends with his vowing to permanently switch to e-mail.

AP - In the space of just a few weeks, we have movies starring Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. It is like the early '90s all over again.

AP - Miranda Kerr says an Australian banker left red-faced when a live TV broadcast showed him looking at her scantily clad photos at work shouldn't be fired.

Reuters - Eric Bana is going back to action movie territory.